Christopher Rainham
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Did I dream?£ 1,100.00 -
Two Treecreepers£ 240.00
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Blue Tit, Pied Wagtail, Sparrow, Wren, Robin£ 240.00
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Inherited Coats £ 240.00
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Starling and Prozac £ 240.00
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Swallow £ 240.00
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Three Blue Tits on Oak Leaves £ 300.00
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Three Wood Warblers £ 300.00
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Wood Warbler on Maple Leaf £ 120.00
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Cabbage White on Blue £ 120.00
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Cabbage Whites £ 240.00
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Chalk Path Common Blue £ 240.00
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An Egg and a Stone £ 240.00
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Hag Stone II£ 120.00
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Shell and Hag Stones £ 120.00
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Something I Should Learn To Love £ 240.00
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Three Stones £ 240.00
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Thrift and Hag Stone £ 240.00
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Two Stones and Ladybird £ 120.00
Christopher Rainham's daily practice has its foundation in drawing and painting, trying in some way to respond to the natural world around him. He is engaged with the serendipitous interactions with plants and animals on his doorstep.
Christopher Rainham's daily practice has its foundation in drawing and painting, trying in some way to respond to the natural world around him. He is engaged with the serendipitous interactions with plants and animals on his doorstep. The sorts of incidents that anyone can have, wherever they are. He feels especially lucky to live in the Calder Valley where these interactions are all around him in the woods and trees and green spaces.
He finds inspiration in these places, their archaeology, history or folk lore. How animals and plants are embedded in our language and how we make sense of the world around us. He feels that by being aware that we are part of this whole we can step back from old ideas that the world is here for our use and that we must live in symbiosis with everything around us.
Rainham works from a home studio just outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.
Selected Exhibitions
Will’s Art Warehouse London
The Affordable Art Fair London, Singapore & New York
Art at the Edge Styal Lodge
Bell Fine Art Wells
Stark Gallery Canterbury
The Corte-Real Gallery Portugal
Highgate Contemporary Art
Greenstage Gallery Worcester
Gorstella Gallery Chester
Albatross and Arnold Manchester
Obstructions Castlefield Gallery Manchester
Oldham Art Gallery Oldham
Moorland Skies The Coach House Littleborough
Castlefield New Art Spaces Wigan
The Manchester Open Home Manchester
Through the Looking Glass World of Glass St Helens
Gorstella Gallery
In The Making Salford Museum and Art Gallery Dec 2022- April 2023
Gladly Beyond Rogue Artist’s Studios CIC Manchester
The Man Who Planted Trees Hebden Bridge Arts
Ancient Grasslands Gibson Mill Hebden Bridge
Awards
North West Arts Board Photography and Print Scheme 1994
Artreach E.P.R. Warrington 1998
Publication fees Images 27 2003
Short listed for the John Moore’s painting prize 2010
Short listed for John Moore’s painting prize 2014
Short listed for the National open Art exhibition 2014
The King of the Cats Arts Council funding 2014
Bolder Artists Mentoring Scheme Castlefield Gallery and GMCA 2020
The Drawing Intensive (Fees) The Royal Drawing School London 2023
Publications
Images 27 The Association of Illustrators 2003
BBC Worldwide Illustration for the Radio Times
Contact 24 2008
The King of the Cats exhibition catalogue 2016
In National Collections
Erebus Bay
Heritage Division, Department of Culture and Heritage
Government of Nunavut, Iqualuit, Canada